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Idea

Graph Air removes the lengthy, expensive and energy consuming vacuum production process that currently exists and produces the Nobel Award winning material in an environmentally friendly process that is ten times cheaper and seven times faster.

Kostya Ostrikov, Michael Seo and Shafique Pineda.

Kostya Ostrikov, Michael Seo and Shafique Pineda.

Team

Michael Seo: Main developer of new graphene synthesis process who has expertise in graphene synthesis and graphene based applications.

Shafique Pineda: Main developer of new graphene synthesis process who has expertise in graphene synthesis and sensor application.

Zhaojun Han: Co-developer of new graphene synthesis process who has expertise in plasma, material science and graphene based applications.

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Liza Noonan: Welcome to ON Boot Camp. Today we are here are to select our cohort of ten teams for our next ON Accelerator.

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We’re looking for big ideas and teams who are ready to learn quickly.

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Facilitator 2: The spirit of what we want to do over this boot camp, we want to just be doing stuff, rolling up our sleeves, getting in there and just showing the rest of our team and the rest of the teams what it is that we’re doing.

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So looking for a valuable idea that no one else is building and we’re going to try and carve that out.

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Male: Well what we do is match fertiliser delivery to crop requirements.

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Female: What we do is provide mining companies with the data that they need.

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Male: We locate mobile phones indoors with two centimetre accuracy.

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Michael Behrens: It’s definitely expanding my mind and making me think about new things, stuff that I’ve never thought about before.

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Charlotte Sennerston: It’s exciting to meet all the innovative people. I hope our team can get feedback and that we can advance our thinking and also get challenged.

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Laura Jones: I think it’s a really great networking opportunity, I think it’s really good to learn from experienced mentors and I think it’s a really great chance for us to showcase new and upcoming research.

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Facilitator 2: We want a way to put our invention in front of a customer so we can observe what they do and we can measure what they do. Be brave, be strong, get out there, talk to these guys and find out what their problems are.

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Michael Behrens: There was someone who I could chat to.

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Female: What we’re trying to understand is that some of the challenges…

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Grant Brinkworth: We’ve just formulated our questions, we’ve refined our question panel and now we’ve identified where these customers are going to be and now we’re going to hit the streets and go and get ‘em.

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Professor Sally Mcarthur: It’s been amazing. We’ve completely, this morning, pivoted our ideas and really started to challenge what our underlying hypothesis was about the project we’re doing.

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Joe Allen: We’ve been able to get our team to test out lots of different assumptions, actually get out of the building, talk to customers, so they found it really valuable for investment of their time and something that I think will benefit their business long term.

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Bill Bartee: If we’re really going to succeed at this stuff there has to actually be real, real commitment and I’d encourage everybody to understand the difference between interest and commitment, because it’s vast!

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Geoff Culbert: If there’s an idea that’s great it will find a home and if anyone’s got an idea that they think will have application to our businesses that’s globally scalable then we are all ears.

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Liza Noonan: The quality of the ideas that have come to boot camp is really mind-blowing. We have a really tough job in about three hours time selecting our cohort of ten, from improving water productivity to helping people who are in wheelchairs access more places, to making our wineries more sustainable, through to addressing Australia’s fruit fly problem, so the diversity in this room is incredible.

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Male: A light bulb moment and use that word.

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Male: The feedback from users is that it is simple to use.

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Male: There’s not been a lot of time to prepare for the pitch. What I’d like to see is a passionate set of scientists, a passionate set of entrepreneurs who are authentically connected to the problem that they’re trying to solve. If the authenticity comes through then I’m happy. If it doesn’t, well, I’m not happy.

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